2 Kings 14:4:72 Kgs.14.4.W7TAB
וּֽמְקַטְּרִ֖ים
umekatrim
“and making offerings by burning or turning into smoke”
- Transliteration
- u-me-kat-RIM
- Extended
- oo-meh-kaht-TEEM
- IPA
- /uːməqatˈtˁriːm/
Meaning by language
- English
- and making offerings by burning or turning into smoke
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Vav | v as in vine; marks long ō / ū | |
| Mem | m as in mother | |
| Sheva | vocal sheva — a short 'e' (ə), begins a syllable | |
| Qof | q — deep k, uvular | |
| Patach | short 'ah' as in father | |
| Tet | t — emphatic | |
| Sheva | silent sheva — no sound; closes the syllable | |
| Resh | r guttural, like the French r | |
| Hireq | 'ee' as in machine | |
| Yod | y as in yes; marks long ī | |
| Mem Sofit | final form of Mem — at word end |
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The word
Word in context
- word
u-me-kat-RIM
- phraseyour reading level
me-zab-KHIM u-me-kat-RIM
- clause
OD ha-AM me-zab-KHIM u-me-kat-RIM ba-ba-MOT
- sentence
RAK ha-ba-MOT lo-SA-RU OD ha-AM me-zab-KHIM u-me-kat-RIM ba-ba-MOT
Exegesis
The coordinated participles mezabbechim {מְזַבְּחִים | məzabbəḥîm} ‘sacrificing’ and u-meqatterim {וּמְקַטְּרִים | ûməqaṭṭərîm} ‘and burning incense’ portray repeated, habitual actions rather than a single event.
Root and etymology
consonantsqof–tet–resh
“make smoke”
In context — 2 Kings 14:4
Only the high places were not removed ; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places.
About this coordinate
2 Kings 14:4:7 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 7 of 2 Kings 14:4, so the Hebrew word וּֽמְקַטְּרִ֖ים (umekatrim) can be cited, linked and studied at exactly this position rather than somewhere in the verse. In the Biblical Knowledge Coordinate System the same position is written 2 Kgs.14.4.W7, which extends further down to each syllable (2 Kgs.14.4.W7.S1) and character.